On the Construction of Nonbinary Quantum BCH Codes

Four quantum code constructions generating several new families of good nonbinary quantum nonprimitive nonnarrow-sense, Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem codes, are presented in this paper. The first two are based on Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) construction derived from two nonprimitive Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem codes. The third one is based on Steane´s enlargement of nonbinary CSS codes applied to suitable subfamilies of nonprimitive nonnarrow-sense Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem codes. The fourth construction is derived from suitable subfamilies of Hermitian dual-containing nonprimitive nonnarrow-sense Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem codes. These constructions generate new families of quantum codes whose parameters are better than the ones available in the literature.